Dorothea Dix

(1802 - 1887)

Iain Bamforth

American novelist and short story writer Bernard Cooper.

Bernard Cooper

Photograph of American clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.

Kay Redfield Jamison

photograph of David Foster Wallace speaking at a podium

David Foster Wallace

(1962 - 2008)

Daniel Defoe

(1660 - 1731)

Quintus Serenus Sammonicus

Felix Platter

(1536 - 1614)

Fanny Burney

(1752 - 1840)

Black and white photograph of American writer and critic Anatole Broyard.

Anatole Broyard

(1920 - 1990)

Greek physician, writer, and philosopher Galen.

Galen

(129 - c. 216)

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates.

Hippocrates

(c. 460 BC - c. 375 BC)

Louis Pasteur

(1822 - 1895)

Ken Kesey

(1935 - 2001)

Portrait of English essayist and critic Thomas De Quincey.

Thomas De Quincey

(1785 - 1859)

Andreas Vesalius

(1514 - 1564)

Sinclair Lewis

(1885 - 1951)

Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Moses Maimonides.

Moses Maimonides

(1135 - 1204)

Al-Kindi

(c. 801 - c. 870)

Louisa May Alcott

(1832 - 1888)

American writer William Styron.

William Styron

(1925 - 2006)

Jean-Dominique Bauby

(1952 - 1997)

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

Noga Arikha

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

Bai Juyi

(772 - 846)

Jonathan Lyons

Susan Sontag

(1933 - 2004)

American writer and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich.

Barbara Ehrenreich

(1941 - 2022)

Elizabeth Blackwell

(1821 - 1910)

Li Zhisui

(1919 - 1995)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

Soranus

(c. 150 - c. 200)

English art historian, novelist and journalist Iain Pears.

Iain Pears

Joan Didion

(1934 - 2021)

English writer Jerome K. Jerome.

Jerome K. Jerome

(1859 - 1927)

John Barth

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Italian poet and librettist Felice Romani.

Felice Romani

(1788 - 1865)

American poet William Carlos Williams.

William Carlos Williams

(1883 - 1963)

Painting of humanist and scholar Erasmus.

Erasmus

(1466 - 1536)

Paddy Chayefsky

(1923 - 1981)

Andrew Blackbird

(c. 1815 - 1908)

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

James Orbinski

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Thucydides

(c. 460 BC - c. 404 BC)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Black and white photograph of scholar, novelist, and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis

(1898 - 1963)

Meehan Crist

Meehan Crist

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf

(1882 - 1941)

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Molière

(1622 - 1673)

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Hildegard of Bingen

(1098 - 1179)

Color photograph of Oliver Sacks with a white beard and glasses.

Oliver Sacks

(1933 - 2015)

Mimnermus

(c. 630 BC - c. 600 BC)

John Wesley

(1703 - 1791)

Photograph of Soviet playwright and writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Mikhail Bulgakov

(1891 - 1940)

Jacques Ferrand

(c. 1575 - c. 1620)

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

Seneca the Younger

(4 BC - 65)

Color portrait of English poet John Donne.

John Donne

(1572 - 1631)

Hammurabi

(1810 BC - 1750 BC)

Atul Gawande

Black and white photograph of John Crowley sitting on a porch.

John Crowley

Black and white photograph of British writer Doris Lessing.

Doris Lessing

(1919 - 2013)

Black and white photograph of Alsatian-German winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Albert Schweitzer.

Albert Schweitzer

(1875 - 1965)

Photograph of English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling.

Rudyard Kipling

(1865 - 1936)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Persian philosopher and scientist Avicenna.

Avicenna

(980 - 1037)

Founder of the Macrobiotic diet and philosophy George Ohsawa.

George Ohsawa

(1893 - 1966)

Photograph of Marcel Proust looking pensive.

Marcel Proust

(1871 - 1922)

Surgeon and author Richard Selzer.

Richard Selzer

(1928 - 2016)

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Michel de Montaigne

(1533 - 1592)